Hello Fellow Travelers,

My friend and i are travelling to Europe for 14 days this Oct and i need your input on my itineraries. Please critics accordingly. I want to be as relax as possible at the same time going in a normal pace without missing anything or too hectic.

Which plan do you think is better? Plan A or Plan B.

Plan A.

Day 1: Arrive in Budapest from US
Day 2: Budapest
Day 3: Budapest
Day 4: Train to Vienna
Day 5: Vienna
Day 6: Vienna
Day 7: Bus to Bratislava
Day 8: Bratislava
Day 9: Train To Prague
Day 10: Prague
Day 11: Prague
Day 12: Prague
Day 13: Flight back to US

OR Plan B

Day 1: Arrive in Munich from US
Day 2: Munich for Oktoberfest only
Day 3: Train to Prague
Day 4: Prague
Day 5: Prague
Day 6: Train to Bratislava (in the morning)
Day 7: Bus to Vienna (in the evening and it takes only 1 hour)
Day 8: Vienna
Day 9: Vienna
Day 10: Train to Budapest
Day 11: Budapest
Day 12: Budapest
Day 13: Flight back to US

Thank you so much guys for your input in advance, any comments will be appreciated.

or any suggestion or revision to the itineraries is much appreciated as well.

I'd say plan A but forget Bratislava and add a day each to Budapest and Vienna.

Both itineraries are too rushed for my liking. Bratislava is only worth a day trip in my opinion, so if you are desperate to see it then take a train from Vienna for a day but don't stay there.

@mjdh1957, thanks for your advice. you are right, i think we are removing the trip to Bratislava and make it into a day trip from Vienna.

This is the revised itineraries. To be honest, I still think that going to Munich fro Oktoberfest is too rushed. My friend would like to go but i am afraid we are taking away time from Vienna or Budapest

Day 1: Arrive in Munich from US
Day 2: Munich for Oktoberfest, Leave Munich at night to Prague
Day 3: Prague
Day 4: Prague
Day 5: Prague
Day 6: Train to Vienna
Day 7: Vienna
Day 8: Vienna (a day trip to Bratislava)
Day 9: Vienna
Day 10: Train to Budapest
Day 11: Budapest
Day 12: Budapest
Day 13: Flight back to US

How about now? Should i just remove Munich completely?
Anyone? Thanks!

Better, but dropping Munich and adding a day to Prague and Budapest would be good. Oktoberfest = bunch drunk Germans and tourists getting hip deep in beer. Didn't you do that in college?

I certainly didn't go to college with a bunch of Germans and tourists

As much as I love Munich and would actually like to go to Oktoberfest, I wouldn't include it this time around, mostly because I think you will have trouble finding accomodation - Oktoberfest is only a few months away and things really book up. And then any lodging that you DO find will be seriously expensive.

Even your revised itinerary is more ambitious that I would like - but it's hard to comment because you haven't said what kinds of things you want to see, do, or experience - and that's the key to timing! Do remember that you are likely to lose some time at the beginning of your trip to jet lag.